Kamppi Center

Kamppi Center ( Kamppi Center ) is a complex in the Kamppi district of Helsinki, Finland, home to both one of the largest shopping centers in Finland and one of the busiest bus stations in Europe.

In the autumn of 2002 began on the site of the most ambitious construction projects in the recent history of Helsinki. For the construction of the new Kamppi Center, a 300 × 100 × 10 was excavated meter pit.

The building houses two underground bus stations:

• Espoon terminaali for bus services between Helsinki and Espoo (1000 departures daily )
• Helsingin linja - autoasema for long haul (700 buses a day)

This bus terminals are used every day by a total of about 200,000 passengers. To guide these people flows a dynamic passenger information system for passengers and bus driver has been installed for around 2 million euros.

The total of 55 platforms No. lie in an underground garage and are separated by glass walls of the concourses. Only after the arrival of the bus, the bus driver is the door of his gates freely and receives the traveler.

On 2 June 2005, the first phase (which a few days later put into service bus terminals, the new access to the metro and a fifth of retail space ) of President Tarja Halonen has been released to the public. This also belongs to the complex shopping center and located in the upper floors, exclusive apartments were opened in March 2006.